Posted on 10/15/2010 11:58:57 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Most of us are scared of something - but imagine being too terrified to sleep in the dark.
This week it emerged that five million people in Britain are spooked when the lights go off.
Fears are often caused by childhood experiences or a traumatic incident. Some people are scared of dogs because they were bitten by one.
But why anyone in Britain should be afraid of spiders is a total mystery. None of the native ones are harmful.
Here are some of the phobias that make us tremble - and the fancy names doctors have given them.
ACROPHOBIA seems more like a built in protective system, innate to creatures whose bodies don’t handle falling from a height very well.
Oh we have them, although the cats keep most of them away.
Funny true story here. About 12 years ago, before I installed an AC in this place, I had the window next to the computer open. No screens on the window.
It’s a super hot night, and I have the lights out, just web-surfing (possibly FReeping, can’t remember), when one of those huge flying bastards came right through the window and landed square on the center of my monitor.
I made an unmasculine noise. A LOUD unmasculine noise. A LOUD HIGH-PITCHED unmasculine noise.
About five minutes later, while I was still cowering in the other room, there was a pounding on the door, which I went to open... and found three cops looking very suspiciously at me. It took me five minutes between laughing, still shaking, and my poor Japanese to explain to them that nobody had been murdered here and that it was just me screaming about a cockroach.
They had to check everywhere in the apartment before they left. By that time they were laughing their asses off and I am sure they had a great time telling the story back at the station.
Where did the flying roach go? Hell if I know! Maybe one of the cats got it, or maybe it flew back out the window.
“Tell me it Ain’t So .. Not In Japan!” LOL
Bet there ain’t none on .. Mount Fuji!
I better retire for the night .. Starting to slur my slang! 8)
Haha, I’ve see you go nutso over little bugs. Next time I’m getting pictures to upload here. I’ve never seen such a big dude shriek like a little girl when a cicada flies in the window. ;)
Algorepbobia? The fear of happy endingd?
Are we related?
Here, you can slur whatever you comeup with! Noone gives a crap.
Islamophobia is my greatest fear.
There’s something about kufi caps, turbans, upraised index fingers, angry glares, and screaming rhetoric about killing the `infidels’ that make me start to sweat as I oil my .45 automatic and reach for a comforting magazine full of JHPs.
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OMG! I thought I was the only person in the world with roachaphobia! I also suffer from fear of heights and all bugs but cockroaches and bees are the worst. I once found a huge nest of ants in the window casing in my den while I was cleaning windows. I freaked out! They were just swarming in the house. I found some bug killer in the utility room but it was a concentrate that was supposed to be mixed with water. I couldn’t find a sprayer so I just dumped the stuff in the window well and it stunk so bad. It took me days to get the stench of that stuff out. And cleaning up the stinky stuff along with the dead ants was sheer torture!
Remembering about the Palmetto Bugs at Girl Scout Camp while growing up in Miami....... you didn’t want to be the last one to arrive at your cabin to choose up bunk beds! Last one there had to have the top bunk against the wall in the open-air cabin. The Palmetto Bugs would fly (attracted by the light, bump against the wall, and fall into the bunk. Even the most “seasoned” camper cringed at the thought!
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“Photoshophobia.” Fear of anything photoshopped.
I admit it, I’m somewhat acrophobic. I get dizzy just looking at a movie scene shot from a high place. There’s a TV ad now running that shows a construction worker (for some strange reason) setting on a girder of a high building eating a bowl of oatmeal. I can’t watch it without feeling dizzy.
Or maybe it crawled in behind the wall where it laid its eggs, thousands of eggs, and those eggs hatched, grew and laid thousands and thousands more eggs which hatched.
Now they've infested your walls and are very, very quietly watching you, watching every movement you make, watching you in the kitchen, watching you when you are asleep.....and waiting, waiting quietly and patiently for the night, the night in which they will finally come forth, by the millions and millions, swarming from the cracks in the walls, swarming from the cracks in the floor, swarming from the air ducts, swarming from under your bed, swarming from under your refrigerator, swarming from under the sink, swarming, swarming, swarming endlessly from everywhere............
That's when you realize you should have called the ORKIN man..........
That sounds about right. I love flying and prefer a window seat and live in a 26th floor apartment. What makes me nervous is being up high in an unenclosed environment... I will not go out on my balcony and I always choose the inside lane when crossing tall bridges.
I hate dolls, too.
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